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At the Black Hat security conference, Microsoft demonstrated a new security tool called the Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit or EMET, which would allows older programs (like IE6) to receive new vulnerability patches. The software, an update to the original version of EMET, released back in…

Seven Microsoft BizSpark companies were invited to Microsoft’s campus recently to spend time with SharePoint team members in order to better learn how they could integrate their particular service with the Microsoft business software. SharePoint, which provides companies with intranet sites, hosted…

Colaab is an online application that offers businesses real time collaboration tools for their employees. The company is now working on a prototype of their online app which works with Windows Live Mesh. Using the contacts API and accessing content from a user’s Live Folders, the colaab app can run…

At the TechEd Conference, Bill Gates gave his last speech as a Microsoft full-time employee and one of the topics he discussed was Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing. (Full transcript is here.) In the speech, Gates spoke of Microsoft’s plan to have “many millions” of servers in the cloud,…

My colleague Chris Carper has just launched a new blog, The Business of Silverlight. He'll be talking about Silverlight from a business perspective, as the title suggests, and also discussing details of some of the big Silverlight projects we've got going with partners.He's already got some good…

In this spill-over from a panel discussion at MIX, the attendees continued a conversation about the Business of Design. The topics in this recording range from how to spec a project, to the designer/developer workflow, to hiring vs growing talent.

Mobile phones are arguably the ultimate gadget, and as a gadget they sometimes get a bad rap as distractions or time wasters. To realign your appreciation for mobiles however, you simply need to spend fifteen minutes with Iqbal Quadir’s TED Talk: The power of the mobile phone to end poverty.…

If you ever wanted to see a perfect storm of hyperlinked news, today’s revelation that Microsoft wants to talk to Yahoo about a merger is it. For those who haven’t already been deafened by twitter exclamations and email flurries, let’s walk through the news thus far. That bastion of responsible…

This morning the Windows Business Group announced two new ways to deploy Vista in enterprise scenarios, both of which seem to be targeted at a return to 70’s cool. The first is simply a change in the EULA that allows for Vista to be used on diskless machines. This agreement allows customers to…